----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:45
PM
Subject: [newbie] Linux Not Booting,
Error in root partition!
Uh oh, not again. Anyway, Linux is claiming that
my root partition was unmounted improperly, even though I shut down correctly.
It checks for errors, finds a bunch and corrects them, then asks if I want to
correct something(can result in data loss), but It's kinda frozen, and I can't
choose in option. It also says run cfsk(or something similar to that, I can't
remember) manually, and says that this can also result in dataloss. Here's why
I think it happened:
I was told yesterday by someone on this list to
add something like --preload ext3 fs when I did mkinitrd for kernel 2.6.3. I
did that, and it booted, but said it couldn't write to /home. I figure that it
wasn't reading the partition right. Then I shut down, and went to sleep.
Today, I booted with my old kernel, and this happened.
I'd really like to get Linux back online, and
maybe Kernel 2.6.3 also. Help please?
Thanks,
Marc
I just tried to boot again. It said Unexpected
Inconsistency. Run fsck manually.
What's fsck, should I run it, will it destroy
anything, how do I run it? Ah, panicking!
Help please,
Marc
